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Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Werte sind nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit ein vieldiskutiertes Thema. Diverse wissenschaftliche Fachdisziplinen setzen sich aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive mit Werten sowie mit dem Konzept der Wertebildung auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint der Sammelband theoretische und methodische...
Supervision in Psychodrama
Experiential Learning in Psychotherapy and Training
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Supervision plays an essential role in the process of learning and professional development in psychotherapy and training. High quality in supervision is a crucial part of the training to support and to guide trainees and to be a reliable point of reference in terms of practice and theory, technical...
Corporate Cultural Responsibility
Moratorium für Kultursponsoring
Language: German
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Die globalen Krisen seit dem Jahr 2008 haben eines sehr deutlich werden lassen: Das Vertrauen der Menschen in Wirtschaft und Politik ist signifikant gesunken. Die Wiedererlangung von Vertrauen gilt daher als oberste Prämisse für ein sozial ausgeglichenes Gesellschaftssystem und für nachhaltige...
Grenzen
Theoretische, konzeptionelle und praxisbezogene Fragestellungen zu Grenzen und deren Überschreitungen
Language: German
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Der Band setzt sich mit einem für Planung und Politik sowie räumliche Sozialforschung wichtigen, jedoch wenig beleuchteten Thema auseinander – mit dem Thema der Grenze. Dabei ist der Band auf unterschiedlichen Diskursebenen angesiedelt: einerseits auf einer theoretisch-konzeptionellen Ebene, die...
Anthropology of Dying
A Participant Observation with Dying Persons in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Mira Menzfeld explores dying persons’ experiences of their own dying processes. She reveals cultural specificities of pre-exital dying in contemporary Germany, paying special attention to how concepts of dying ‘(un)well’ are perceived and realized by dying persons. Her methodological focus centers...
The Changing East Asian Security Landscape
Challenges, Actors and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The topic of this book deals with a highly relevant empirical issue: East asian security and the dynamics of the respective governance structure or architecture are not only of regional but of global concern. Since the pivot of the American pivot to East Asia and other external actor´s responses...
Social Theory and Social Movements
Mutual Inspirations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Social movements are not only a potential challenge to societies, they also challenge social theory. This volume looks at social movements and social movement research through the lens of different social theories. What can social movement studies learn from these theories? And: What can these theories...
Their Members' Voice
Civil Society Organisations in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The role of civil society organisations in Brussels is debated. Some view them as representatives of their members and thus as legitimising agents for policy-making in the European Union. Others see them as being elitist and out of touch with their membership bases, therefore ill-suited to promote...
Peripheralization
The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Peripheries emerge as a result of shifts in economic and political decision-making at various scales. Therefore peripheral spaces are not a “natural” phenomenon but an outcome of the intrinsic logic of uneven geographical development in capitalist societies. Discussing examples from Germany, Eastern...
School and Community Interactions
Interface for Political and Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Within the European and Asian context scientists from nine different countries are concerned with political and social interactional structures between schools as public institutions and the local political actors which influence the school environment. The contributions give answers to questions...
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Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Das Phänomen „Scheiterns“ findet man auf der Schattenseite der Gesellschaft. Ist es dann schon verständlich, dass dessen begriffliche Bestimmung und empirische Beschreibung durch die Sozialwissenschaften nur unzureichend ausfällt? Bis auf die organisationstheoretischen Bemühungen macht die...
Precarity and Loss
On Certain and Uncertain Properties of Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
The book is devoted to social and political interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in which the ideas of loss and deprivation are the founding incentives of the precariousness of the position and the status of the human subject. Loss of property in the economic sense, along with...
Constitutional Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
From Post-Socialist Transition to the Reform of Political Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The contributions to this edited volume discuss constitutional politics in 20 Central and Eastern European countries. The country chapters describe all constitutional amendments and new constitutions after the first post-communist constitution-making, all failed amendment attempts, and the political...
State Terror, State Violence
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The volume critically discusses theoretical discourses and theoretically informed case studies on state violence and state terror. How do states justify their acts of violence? How are these justifications critiqued? Although legally state terrorism does not exist, some states nonetheless commit acts...